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Easley’s inspiration for this book comes in a recommendation written several centuries ago from Martin Luther who said, “Languages are the sheath which hides the Sword of the Spirit…so although the faith of the gospel may be proclaimed by a preacher without the knowledge of the languages, the preaching will be feeble and ineffective. But where the languages are studied, the proclamation will be...

infinitive, εἰς means “in order to”, and it also has other meanings. The range of possible meanings for εἰς is extensive. Only when a speaker or writer used εἰς in a specific context did it have a specific meaning. When you first started memorizing Greek vocabulary, you were learning only unmarked meanings and not necessarily the meaning in a given context. (If you want to learn more about this, turn to section 6.5.) Furthermore, a lexical entry often combines several syntactical words (various
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